20th century Timeline of Lubumbashi

1900s-1950s

1909

1 september: elisabethville site designated seat of katanga province; named after elisabeth of bavaria, queen of belgium.
27 september: sakania-elisabethville railway (fr) begins operating.


1910

union minière du haut katanga (mining entity) active.
hôpital gécamines sud (fr) (hospital) , catholic apostolic prefecture of katanga established.
population: 360.
Émile wangermée becomes vice governor-general of katanga.


1910s - governor s residence , imara , twendelee schools built.
1911

journal du katanga newspaper begins publication.
population: 1,000.
etoile mining begins near elisabethville.
catholic schools institut marie-josé , collège saint-françois de sales established.


1912

racially segregated native city established per ordinance.
elisabethville becomes seat of upper luapula district.


1918 - bukama-elisabethville railway (fr) begins operating.
1919

population: 8,000 (approximate).
ruashi mining begins in vicinity of elisabethville.


1920

management of union minière transferred british belgians.
catholic sts. peter , paul cathedral built.


1920s - makutano club, jerusalem united methodist church, , jewish synagogue built.
1921 - development of albert township begins.
1928

port-francqui-elisabethville railway (fr) begins operating.
l essor du congo newspaper begins publication.


1930s- courthouse , mazembe stadium built.
1931 - l Écho du katanga newspaper begins publication.
1932 - wallace memorial church built.
1937 - musée d Élisabethville (fr) (museum) founded.
1939 - football clubs fc saint-Éloi lupopo , fc saint-georges formed.
1941

elisabethville attains city status.
development of kenya township begins.


1944 - premiere of joseph kiwele s (ru) cantate à la gloire de la belgique.
1945 - union africaine des arts et lettres founded.[1]
1946 - academie d art populaire d elisabethville founded.[2]
1949 - athénée royal built.
1950 - development of katuba township begins.
1950s - post office,...csk headquarters, theater, st. mary s basilica, , railway headquarters built.
1951 - academie des beaux-arts d elisabethville founded.[3]
1954

development of ruashi township begins.
city seal in use.


1956 - université officielle du congo et du rwanda-urundi opens.
1957

city divided 5 communes, 1 europeans , 4 africans.
december: local election (fr) held.


1959

roman catholic archdiocese of elisabethville established.
population: 183,711 (estimate).



1960s-1990s

1960

june: city becomes part of independent republic of congo.
july: city becomes capital of breakaway state of katanga during congo crisis.
boniface mwepu katentakanya (fr) becomes bourgmestre (mayor).


1960s - gecamines tower , 2 hospitals built.
1961 - 15 september: airport bombed katangese air force.
1963 - mjumbe (ln) newspaper begins publication.
1964 - stade albert (stadium) opens.
1966 - city becomes capital of katanga province.
1967

la générale des carrières et des mines (mining entity) headquartered in city.
centre culturel français (fr) opens.


1970

elisabethville renamed lubumbashi.
musée national de lubumbashi (fr) (museum) active.


1970s - hotel karavia , mobutu stadium built.
1971 - city becomes part of shaba province in republic of zaire.
1972

kampemba commune created.
university s centre d études des littératures romanes d inspiration africaine active.[4][5]


1974 - société nationale des chemins de fer du congo (national railway) headquartered in lubumbashi.
1975 - population: 480,875 (estimate).
1977 - annexe (commune) (fr) created.
1981 - university of lubumbashi active.
1984 - population: 543,268.
1990 - may: student demonstration @ university of lubumbashi; crackdown.
1994 - population: 851,381 (estimate).
1997

april: alliance of democratic forces liberation of congo take city during first congo war.
floribert kaseba makunko becomes mayor.
may: city becomes part of democratic republic of congo.






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